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Office workers joked that the Microsoft outage could end their workweek early amid a wave of internet memes following the global meltdown.
Industries across the UK have reported severe disruption as a result of the outage, with aviation, rail and GP surgeries all affected by the technical issue.
The crash, believed to have been the result of a faulty software update by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike, also took Sky News off air this morning.
Users took to X to share memes, including depictions of the so-called “blue screen of death” and jokes that the outage was an excuse to skip work early on the weekend.
Other memes showed the world on fire, a reference to the massive domino effect that has affected businesses around the world, including the world’s largest airports.
LEAVING WORK: A meme showing a desperate man jumping out of the door of his workplace, in an apparent joke that the power outage is an excuse to leave early for the weekend.
A man in a flat cap smoking a cigarette walks away from a large fire engulfing a large house, symbolizing the global effects of the blackout.
A meme shows IT employees scratching their heads and grimacing amid the crisis
BLUE SCREEN: A man covered in blue tan, a reference to the “blue screen of death” that computers experience when they crash.
The pandas represent people watching their laptops turn blue due to the global outage.
A meme shared online shows people surrounding a man being stoned, meant to represent IT employees.
In this meme, technicians work on overhead cables with a computer displayed on a “blue screen.”
The Las Vegas sphere is shown with a message saying: ‘Your device is experiencing a problem and needs to restart’
A worker jokes that “everyone who uses a computer for work should go home early today.”
Another Blue Screen of Death meme shows a computer with the message “Windows did not load correctly”